Game Show Host ‘Let God Drive’ — It Changed His Life
By Movieguide® Contributor
FAMILY FEUD host Steve Harvey is sharing how his life changed after he gave God control.
“Just a living witness that God moves you if you let Him. He moves you the way He wants to move you,” Harvey said on an episode of TBN. “You know, the mistake I was making in the past was I would pray to God for something, but then I would be real specific with what I wanted and how I wanted it, not knowing that what I should have been doing was saying, ‘Hey. What do you want for me?’ Because no matter what I wanted for myself, it ain’t never [going to] top what He had for me.”
“I had a lot of delays in my life because I kept trying to get it my way, man, instead of letting Him have it His way,” he continued. “What happened was once I learned that you can’t outwant God. You can’t outplan Him. You can’t outthank Him. He made all this — heaven, earth, trees, Niagra Falls, all this. So, what are you going to think of that’s better than what He is going to come with? I had to quit tripping, and I had to let God drive.”
Even though Harvey hosts a comedy show that can get a little raunchy, he always uses his platform to spread a message of hope to the audience.
“…I am just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army, fighting for God almighty,” he said previously. “Don’t you think you’ve got to be perfect, ‘cause I ‘aint.”
He’s spoken about the importance of faith and relying on God’s timing in the past.
“Two things, my dream and my faith,” he said during a FAMILY FEUD episode. “Faith is the belief in things that you cannot see. You can never lose faith. That’s the key. You have to believe in something that you can’t see. You have to believe when you can’t, when you don’t see no way how. You have to buckle down and keep believing. God is always coming.”
“The moment you ask God for something, He boxes it up and He ships it to you,” Harvey continued. “Here’s the problem with the package. He never gives you the date that it’s going to arrive. It’s going to come, He just don’t tell you when. If He told you when, it would destroy the relationship that’s required to have an abundant life, which is faith.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Harvey:
Talk show host and comedian Steve Harvey recently shared a love letter to his wife, Marjorie, as the couple celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on June 25.
In the letter, Harvey thanked Marjorie for the way she supported him through difficult times in his life, like homelessness, and pointed him back to faith.
“You are the single biggest reason outside of God’s grace that I am where I am today. You’re the one,” Harvey, 65, revealed in an issue of Good Housekeeping. “I feel like if I lost everything, you’d stay with me and we’d build it up again. As a matter of fact, I know you would.
“Nearly two decades have flown by, and I have felt lucky every single one of those days,” Harvey added…
“Both my mother and grandmother instilled a strong sense of faith in me,” Marjorie told Essence. “Our relationship with God is the centerpiece for love in our family.”
